INDEX

abortion, 136, 183, 184, 189

Albanians, 221
Africa, 62, 67
Africans, 222
Agricultural College (Berlin), 11416
agricultural research, 6, 9, 73, 11415, 127,
1301, 134, 138
agronomy, 127, 12931, 1378
Aktion Sorgenkind (Germany), 197, 202
Albareda, Jos M., 132
alkaptonuria, 3, 6, 13
allele frequency, 63, 69, 756
allelic modification, 156, 161
Allison, Anthony, 48
Allmnna Svenska Utsdesaktiebolaget
(Sweden), 130
Alps, 61, 87, 91, 968, 223
Alzheimers disease, 188
American Eugenics Society, 29, 34
American Society of Human Genetics, 158
amniocentesis, 146, 184, 204
Anglo-American International Association
for the Advancement of Ethnology and
Eugenics (IAAEE) 222
anaemia, 53, 106, 108, 109, 184
animal genetics, 48, 59, 219
animal breeding, 11415
anthropology
biological, 556, 61
cultural and social, 11, 66, 86, 101, 102,
104, 105
physical, 43, 57, 66, 86, 99, 221
racial, 901, 95, 989
anthropometry, 62, 86, 221
anticipation, 10, 15363
antiserum production, 712, 74

Apache, 62
Army Blood Transfusion Service (UK), 79
Asilomar Conference, 121, 183
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, 209
Atomic Energy Commission 106, 207, 208
Atomic Energy Research Establishment
(Harwell, UK), 11718, 125, 1424
atomic energy, 142, 209, 212
atomic weapons, 142, 143, 205, 206
Aula Dei Experimental Station (Spain), 127,
130, 132137
Auschwitz, 23
Austen, Jane, 207
Australia, 62, 107, 159, 180
Aborigines, 62
autarchy, 134
autism, 53
Avery, Amos, 132

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bacteriology, 14, 24
Baden, 14
Baden-Wrttemberg, 197
Baitsch, Helmut, 199200
Bakeslee, Albert F., 132
Balling, Rudi, 1234
Bandung ( Java), 130
Barber, Bernard, 215
Barigozzi, Claudio, 21722, 224, 227
barley (Hordeum), 127, 130, 1323
Barr body, 137, 146, 147
Barr, Murray L., 137
Basques, 61
Baur, Erwin, 115
Bavaria, 21
Beadle, George, 3
Beatty, John, 214
Bell, George Douglas Hutton, 135

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Bell, Julia, 1545, 157

Bellagio, 21722, 2245, 227
Bene Israel, 645
Berlin, 223, 34, 115, 117
Bern, 34
Bernard, Claude, 113
Bernstein, Felix, 3
Betancourt, Rafael Molina, 107
Bianco, Ida, 218
Biesele, John J., 135
Birmingham, 34
biochemistry, 12, 110
biochemical markers, 12, 63, 103
biohistorical narrative, 657
biometry, 5, 18, 424
biopsy, 139
biotechnology, 12, 6, 165, 188
Birch, Carroll LaFleur, 1713
birth control, 45, 50
Blacker, C. P., 50
blood
coagulation, 1767
depots, 701, 73, 77
disease, 109, 168, 170
donation, 71, 735, 82
groups, 34, 6, 10, 52, 57, 60, 625,
6971, 75, 867, 909, 1079, 111,
222, 224
incompatibility, 803, 223
testing, 71, 74, 78, 81, 86, 91, 107, 223
sampling, 6465, 69, 76, 80, 82, 105,
106109, 111, 139
transfusion, 8, 70, 78, 169170, 172174
Blood Transfusion Research Committee
(UK), 71, 78
Boas, Franz, 435, 49, 102, 104, 221
Bogor (Indonesia), 129
Bologna, 219, 221
Botanical Institute (Bogor, Indonesia), 129
Bowditch, Henry Pickering, 41, 43
Boyd, William C., 60, 63
Boyer, Samuel H., 34
Brazil, 602, 102, 225
Bremen, 19
Brinkhous, Kenneth, 1735
British Blood Group Survey, 76
British Medical Journal, 71, 74, 78
broad bean (Vicia faba), 133

Bucharest, 221
Buergers disease, 36
Bulloch, William, 16870
Burt, Cyril, 40, 43, 46, 50, 51, 186
Bush, Vannevar, 31
Bussey Institution, 114
Buzzati-Traverso, Adriano, 21722, 2247
Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de
Aragn y Rioja, 132
Calabria, 221
Canada, 142, 159
Cancer Research Centre (Bombay, India), 60
cancer, 5, 26, 34, 90, 1212, 132, 1414,
150, 189, 215, 217
Cardiff, 34
Crdenas, Lzaro, 104
Carlson, Elof Axel, 213, 207
Carnegie Institution, 4, 302
Carr-Saunders, Alexander M., 46
Carstairs (UK), 147
Cattell, Raymond B., 45, 51
Caso, Alfonso 104, 105, 107, 110
caste system (India), 61, 634, 77
cataract, 117, 1223
Catholicism, 21819, 228
Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi, 61, 207, 217, 2212,
224, 227
census, 21, 25
central dogma of molecular biology, 158
cereal breeding, 12830, 132, 134
Charit clinic, Berlin, 116
Chicago, 108, 110
child growth, 401, 435, 47
Childs, Barton, 159, 184
chromosome, 1, 9, 36, 1289, 1312
aberration, 10, 12
fragmentation, 131, 135
human, 127, 129, 1367, 14151
Churchill Hospital (Oxford, UK), 144
CIBA Symposium, 199
citizenship, 945, 98
civil rights movement, 148
Clarke, Angus, 182
clerical work, 745
clinical medicine, 2, 6, 8, 7880, 82, 127,
1389, 153, 156, 1612, 166, 16971,
1768

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Index
clinical observation, 23, 35
clinical psychiatry, 21
cloning, 1
colchicine, 1289, 1323, 1356, 139
Cold Spring Harbour Symposium on
Quantitative Genetics, 59
Cold War, 90, 147, 158, 206, 207, 215, 216
Collier, John, 102, 104
Collins, Francis, 189
Cologne, 34
colonialism, 59
colour blindness, 63
Columbia University, 47, 60, 104, 161
Institute for the Study of Human Variation, 60, 63
Comfort, Nathaniel, 6, 165
computing, 73
concentration camp, 22, 129
Condon, E. U., 206
consanguinity, 5861
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas (Spain), 132
constitution (medicine), 1, 10, 20, 22, 29,
34, 41, 219, 2256
constitutional pathology, 20, 29, 219, 225,
226, 228
contagion, 19
Cornelius Helferich Foundation, 203
Contergan scandal, 197
Cornet, Georg, 14
coronary diseases, 35
coroner, 17
counselling (eugenic/ genetic), 11, 24, 32,
177, 193204, 223
Court Brown, Michael, 144, 148, 150
cross-breeding, 61, 65
cystic fibrosis, 179
cytogenetics, 127, 129, 1312, 134, 1379,
1416, 14852, 165
cytology, 127, 131, 135
cytoplasmic inheritance, 158

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Datura, 133
Davenport, Charles, 3, 4
degeneration, 153
Degenhardt, Karl-Heinz, 203
dementia praecox, 154
demography, 45, 57, 61, 66, 2201
Denmark, 127
Department of Atomic Energy (Chalk River,
Canada), 142
depression, 188
diabetes, 154
diagnosis, 1819, 82, 127, 138, 165, 168,
170
diathesis, 14, 19, 226
Dice, Lee Raymond, 175
Diehl, Karl, 225
Dight Institute for Human Genetics, University of Minnesota, 32, 194
Di Guglielmo, Giovanni, 224
disability, 1967, 2024
DNA, 158, 165, 183, 188
Dobzhansky, Theodosius, 5758, 60, 63, 97,
205, 208, 212, 222, 226
dog, 1734
dominance, 75, 80
Donald, Malcolm, 29
Down syndrome, 137, 1445
Draper, George, 29
Draper, Wickliffe P., 29
Drosophila, 120, 123, 136, 139, 142, 147,
157, 161, 169, 205, 21113, 217
Drury, Alan, 78
Duncan, Otis Dudley, 47
Dunker community, 612
Dunn, Leslie Clarence, 2, 578, 60, 68, 97
Dunning, Gordon, 214
Dutch East Indies, 129
dynamic mutation, 162

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DAncona, Umberto, 224

DallAqua, Giovanni, 224
Dameshek, William, 176
DAncona, Umberto, 224
Darwin, Charles, 153
Darwinian evolution, 61, 97

East Prussia, 20
Ebro (Spain), 132
Eddy, James E., 30
Edinburgh, 144, 14750, 221
Edinburgh University, 46
Ehling, Heidede, 11820
Ehling, Udo, 11723, 125
electrophoresis, 106, 111

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Elvas Plant Breeding Experimental Station

(Portugal), 130
embryonic tissue, 1367
Emergency Blood Transfusion Service,
6972, 76
Emergency Public Health Laboratory Service (UK), 72
endogamy, 58, 62, 65
endogamous group, 56, 5960, 65
England, 76
Environmental Mutagen Society, 120
epidemiology, 2, 14, 17, 90, 195
epilepsy, 116
Erythroblastosis fetalis, 7980
Estaao Agronomica Nacional (Sacavem,
Portugal), 132
Estacin de Biologa Experimental de
Cogullada (Zaragoza, Spain), 130
Esteruelas, Ramn, 130, 132
ethnography, 75
ethnology, 61, 66, 767
eugenics, 45, 1011, 1819, 21, 235,
423, 467, 501, 53, 57, 73, 143, 158,
165, 193, 201, 204, 222
Eugenics Record Office (Cold Spring Harbor, USA), 3, 2730
Eugenics Society, 46, 47, 51
Eugster, Jakob, 90
Europe, 65
Eve, I. S., 212
evolutionary synthesis, 56
experiment, 589, 634, 80
Experimental Breeding Station (Swedish
Seed Association, Svalf ), 127, 1301,
134, 136
experimental design, 65, 154
Experimental and Education Centre for
Radiation Protection, Munich, 11920,
122, 1245
experimental medicine, 166, 169, 173,
1756

Federation of American Scientists, 214

feebleminded (morons, imbeciles, idiots),
36, 424, 48, 49, 52
Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm, 34
fertility, 39, 45, 46, 4853
field biology, 58
field researcher (human genetics), 27, 301,
223
Fildes, Paul, 16870
Fisher Box, Joan, 73
Fisher, Ronald A., 40, 423, 45, 4850, 52,
60, 69, 7283, 159
Fleck, Ludwick, 6
fly room, 161
Fo, Carlo, 2256
Flling, Asbjrn, 179
Food and Drug Administration (USA), 174
Ford, Charles, 1424, 147
Fox, Robin, 207
Framingham study, 225
France, 5, 153
Franco dictatorship, 127, 134
Frankfurt-on-Main, 196, 203
Fraser-Roberts, John A., 45, 50
Freire-Maia, Newton, 60
frog, 183
Fuhrmann, Walter, 196, 2002

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familial inheritance, 167
family history, 14, 80, 1535, 157, 167, 169
fascism (Italian), 2217
Favor, Jack, 1223
Federal University of Paran, 60
federalism, 936, 98

Gallstegui, Cruz, 137

Galton, Francis, 3, 5, 1415, 413, 50, 153
Gamio, Manuel, 102, 104
Gannett, Lisa, 94
Gautier, Marthe, 145
Grajales, Francisco, 107
Garay, Alfonso Len de, 107
Garrod, Archibald, 3, 6
Gaudillire, Jean-Paul, 2, 179
Gedda, Luigi, 21819, 222, 2248
gene, 1, 165
gene frequency, 60, 62, 66, 76, 956
gene pool, 59, 200, 204
gene transfer, 165
genealogy, 1415, 25
generation, 17
genetic distance, 62
genetic drift, 59, 98
genetic engineering, 199
genetic hygiene, 1945, 199

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genetic load, 61, 199, 208, 211
genetic markers, 623, 67
genetic therapy, 175, 188, 190
genetic variation, 556
genetics, 2, 51, 134, 1378, 158, 1656,
1745, 1778, 179, 182, 183, 185,
18790
biochemical, 175
comparative, 116, 119, 124
correlation in, 22
medical, 1112, 556, 60, 67, 101, 103,
105, 107, 108, 11012, 127, 153,
15863, 165, 1778, 183, 184, 226
molecular, 183, 188, 190
Geneva, 34, 195
genomics, 125, 151, 165
genotype, 81, 173
Genus (journal), 219
German Mouse Clinic, 114, 125
German Research Foundation, 11415
German Research Institution for Psychiatry,
21
German Society for Blood Group Research,
75, 91
German Society for Racial Hygiene, 18
German Tuberculosis Society, 25
Germany, 5, 14, 18, 114, 118, 125, 167,
193204
germ-plasm poisoning, 154
Ghigi, Alessandro, 221
Gianferrari, Luisa, 21819, 2225, 2278
Gilbert, Walter, 188
Gini, Corrado, 21821
Giordano, Alfonso, 224
Glass, David V., 46, 47, 52
Glover, Gina, 151
Goddard, Henry H., 412, 44, 48
Gofman, John W., 208, 209, 213
Goldschmidt, Richard, 161
Gottstein, Adolf, 19
Graham, John, 1736
grass (Phleum echinatum), 133
Greece, 93
Gregor Mendel Institute of Medical Genetics and Twin Research (Rome), 2256,
228
Griesemer, James, 94
Gruening, Ernst, 102

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guinea pig, 114

Guisan, Henry, 90
Grich, Hellmuth, 116
Guthrie, Robert, 180, 185
Guys Hospital, London, 144
Hadorn, Ernst, 90
Haecker, Valentin, 19
Hanhart, Ernst, 96
haematology, 70, 1667, 1723
haemophilia, 13, 16678, 223
carriers, 168
female transmission, 1689
Haldane, J. B. S., 39, 44, 52, 73, 82, 154,
159, 171
Halsey, A. H., 52
Hamburg, 19
Hamerton, John, 142
Hardy, George, 76
Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, 42, 52, 757,
82
Harlan, John M., 29
Harvey, A. McGehee, 33
Harper, Peter, 1656
Harris, Harry, 159
Heidelberg, 34, 197
hereditary disease, 1415, 26, 1658, 1778
hereditary disposition, 167
hereditary talent, 223
heredity clinics, 2737, 195
Heredity Clinic (University of Michigan), 175
heredity, 5, 6, 9, 17, 19, 256, 129, 153, 166
Herrnstein, Richard, 185, 187
heritability, 10, 22
Herskovits, Melville J., 68
heterozygosity, 43, 48, 49, 183, 190
Hiernaux, Jean, 63, 678
Hiroshima, 207, 209, 210
Hobsbawm, Eric, 6
Hochschild, Arlie, 206, 207
Hogben, Lancelot, 39, 44, 47, 73, 154
Hollaender, Alexander, 11920, 212
homosexuality, 53
homozygosity, 48, 49, 173
Hood, Leroy, 188
Hpital Trousseau (Paris, France), 144

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Hospital de Enfermedades de la Nutricin,

108
Hospital for Sick Children (London, UK),
195
hospital population, 1618
hospital records, 8, 1718, 222
Hweler, Chris, 157
Howell, William Henry, 169
Hrab de Angelis, Martin, 1234
Hsia, David, 159
Hsu, Tao-Chiuh, 136
Hug, Otto, 119
human diversity, 55, 67
human evolution, 55, 67
Human Genetics Committee (Medical
Research Council), 73, 82
human genetics, 1, 6, 11, 55, 57, 67, 69,
74, 76, 823, 138, 1534, 15863,
165, 173, 175, 194, 1978, 202, 204,
21920
Human Genome Project, 1224, 187, 189
human heredity, 6, 17, 21, 74, 153
Hungerford, David A., 143
Huntingtons chorea, 13, 154
Hurlers syndrome, 36
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn, 52
hybrid vigour (heterosis), 48, 52, 53
hybridization, 135
hygiene, 14, 19, 23

Institute of Forest Genetics (Placerville,

California), 30
Institute of Genetics (University of Lund,
Sweden), 131
Institute of Human Variation (University of
Michigan), 175
insurance companies, 8, 15, 19, 20, 25, 226
intelligence (mental ability, IQ), 3954,
148, 1857, 190
interbreeding, 58
Inter-American Congress of Indigenous
Affairs, 102, 104
Inter-American Institute for Indigenous
Affairs, 104
interdisciplinarity, 67, 177
International Association of Athletics Federation, 147
International Biological Program, 151
International Congress of Catholic Physicians, 223
International Congress of Genetics, 21720,
2245
International Congress of Human Genetics,
59, 145
International Congress of the Latin Eugenics
Societies, 221
International Programme for Human Biology, 66
International Wheat Genetics Symposium,
135
Iowa Child Welfare Station, 44
islanders, 61
isolate, 8, 56, 58, 601, 65, 95, 97, 221, 223
Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese, 60
Italian Committee for the Study of Population (CISP), 21821
Italian Genetics Society 219, 227
Italian National Institute of Statistics, 218
Italian National Research Council, 219
Italian Society of Genetics and Eugenics
(SIGE), 21821, 227
Italian Society of Medical Genetics, 225, 227
Italian State Council, 224
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Iceland, 76
Ikin, Elizabeth, 72
immigration, 76, 97, 221
immunity, 2, 19, 79, 172
in vitro fertilization, 1
inbreeding, 58, 601, 65
incest, 58
index cards, 75
India, 61, 63
Indiana University, Bloomington, 208, 209
indigenous populations (Indigenismo, indigenista), 10112
infection, 2, 23
inheritance of acquired characteristics, 154,
158
Institute of Bacteriology (Lund, Sweden),
136

Jackson Laboratory, 114

Jacobs, Patricia, 144
Jaenisch, Rudolf, 183

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jaundice, 154
Java, 127, 129, 130
Jennings, H. S., 42
Jensen, Arthur, 185, 187, 207
Jews, 94, 222
Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, Maryland), 314
Johns Hopkins Medical School (Baltimore,
Maryland), 169
Jrgensen, C. A., 133
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr Foundation, 137
Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, 78
Julius Klaus Foundation, 912
Junta de Relaciones Culturales (Spain), 130
Kahn test (syphilis), 74
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology (Berlin), 161
Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology,
Human Heredity and Eugenics, 22,
11617
Klin, Joseph, 94
Kamin, Leon, 186
Karl, Adolfo, 108
karyotyping, 9, 1414, 14551
Kemp, Tage, 194, 199
Kevles, Daniel, 5, 47
Khanolkar, V. R., 56, 60, 645
Kings College (Newcastle upon Tyne), 162
Kirkman, Neil, 175
Kirsch, Scott, 214
Klinefelter syndrome, 144, 146, 147
Knapp, Harold, 208, 214
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
(Sweden), 131
Koumaris, Ioannis, 93
Krementsov, Nikolai, 217
Kretschmer, Ernst, 20
Kroeber, Alfred 104
Krokowski, Ernst, 11718
Khn, Alfred, 116
Kuhn, Thomas S., 6, 159

297

Lajtha, Lazlo G., 144

Lakatos, Imre, 40
Lamarckism, 158
Landsteiner, Karl, 79
Lange, Bruno, 23
Laughlin, Harry H., 2732, 35, 37
Laurence, William L., 117
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
213
Lebers hereditary optic neuropathy, 154
Leicester, 45
Ljeune, Jrme, 137, 145, 179
Lenz, Fritz, 1989
leukaemia, 139, 143, 144, 224
Levan, Albert, 127, 131, 139, 142
Libby, Willard F., 213
Lilienfeld, Abraham, 221
linguistics, 67, 934
linkage, 80, 162
Lisker, Rubn, 103, 10712
Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine
(UK), 60, 83
Liverpool, 16
Livingstone, Frank B., 66
Logan, Cheryl, 113
Lombardy, 2234
London, 34, 107, 110
London County Council (LCC), 43
Lwy, Ilana, 2
Ludmerer, Kenneth, 4
Lund (Sweden), 132, 136, 142
Luxenburger, Hans, 212
Lysenkoism, 158

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Laboratory for Studies in Human Variation

(Bombay, India), 60, 63
Laboratory of Human Genetics (Federal
University of Paran), 60
Laemmli, Whitney, 207

Macfarlane, Robert Gwyn, 172, 176

Mackenzie, Donald, 4
MacKey, James, 131
Madrid School of Agronomy, 130
Magni, Giovanni, 218
malaria, 106, 10911
Malling, Heinrich, 122
manic depression, 21, 188, 223
Mankind Quarterly (journal), 222
Manuila, Alexander, 93
mapping, 73, 879, 92, 94, 96
Marburg, 196, 198200
Marfans syndrome, 356

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marriage
laws, 64, 226
registers, 66
mathematization, 62, 75
Mather, Kenneth, 50
Mayr, Ernst, 205
Max Planck Society, 117, 119
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and
Medical Genetics, 117, 197
Mazumdar, Pauline, 4, 53
McKusick, Victor, 27, 337, 161
meadow saffron (Colchicum autumnale), 128
medical records, 23, 25, 34, 37
Medical Research Council (UK), 701, 73,
778, 83, 106, 143, 144, 148, 149
medical statistics, 17
Mendel, Gregor, 3, 61
Mendelism, 3, 6, 28, 113, 158, 16971
Mendelian inheritance, 3, 9, 13, 1819,
212, 26, 424, 49, 156, 169, 176
mental disease, 20, 26
mental retardation, 182, 189, 190
Merriam, John C., 301
Mexico, 10112
Microcythaemia, 218
microscope, 78, 131, 136
migration, 57, 59, 63, 68
Milan, 34, 21718, 222, 225
military medicine, 902, 226
Miller, Fiona, 146
minorities (ethnic), 93, 97
Ministry for Atomic Affairs (West Germany), 118
Ministry of Health (Mexico), 105, 106, 109
Ministry of Health (UK), 71
Ministry of Health (US), 106
Ministry of Health (West Germany), 196
Ministry of Public Education (Italy) 224
Ministry of Public Education (Mexico) 105
Ministry for Scientific Research (West
Germany), 120
miscegenation, 68
Misin Biolgica de Galicia (Spain), 137
mitosis, 1289, 133, 136, 139
Mittwoch, Ursula, 159
model organism, 2, 9, 24, 113, 125, 156,
1734
model population, 21
Mohr, Jan, 159

molecular biology, 178

molecular medicine, 165
molecularization, 158, 178
Mollison, Patrick, 80
mongols, 36
see also Down syndrome; feebleminded
monogenic disease, 13, 22
Montalenti, Giuseppe, 21722, 2245, 227
Moore, Joseph E., 33
morbidity, 14
Morgan, Thomas Hunt, 161, 169, 208
Morison, Robert S., 218
Morris, Desmond, 207
mortality, 1618, 25
Moscow Treaty, 119
mother-daughter pairs, 36
Motulsky, Arno, 3, 108, 159
Mourant, Arthur, 60, 92, 107, 110
mouse, 114, 11822, 132, 183, 210, 211
Muller, Herman J., 1589, 205, 20713, 215
Mller-Wille, Staffan, 85
multi-allelic loci, 157
Munich, 34
Munich crisis, 70
Mnster, 34, 197
Mntzing, Arne, 131
Murray, Charles, 187
Museum of Natural Sciences (Madrid), 137
mutagenesis tests, 118, 1204
mutagens, chemical, 1204
mutation, 57, 59, 62, 116, 156, 171, 190,
199201, 208, 21012
myotonic dystrophy, 1545, 157
myth, 64, 66, 68

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Nachtsheim, Hans, 11420, 1245, 1978,

203
Nagasaki, 207, 209, 210
Naples, 218, 224
Nasse, Christian Friedrich, 167
National Academy of Sciences, 184, 214
National Council of Mental Hygiene, 44
National Institute for Genomic Medicine
(Mexico), 112
National Institute of Cardiology (Mexico),
106
National Institute of Nutrition (Mexico),
106

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National Institutes of Health (Bethesda,
Maryland), 106, 1378, 174
National Nuclear Energy Commission
(Mexico), 107
National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico),
108
Native Americans, 61
native place, 94
National University of Mexico, 104
Nattras, F. J., 162
Nazi regime, 45, 10, 234, 57, 85, 158,
161, 193, 198, 204
Nebel, B. R., 132
Neel, James V., 61, 161, 175, 205, 20713,
215
Neue Zrcher Zeitung, 92
Neuhuser-Klaus, Angelika, 123
neurology, 11516, 153, 162
New York State Agronomic Experimental
Station, 132
New York City, 29, 106, 110, 1356, 167
New Zealand, 159, 180
Newcastle Medical School, 162
Nixon, Richard, 184
nomenclature, 7980, 82
non-Mendelian inheritance, 154
North America, 158
Novitski, Ed, 212
Nowell, Peter, 139
nuclear research, 9, 61
numerical taxonomy, 68
Nsslein-Volhard, Christiane, 123
nutrition, 19, 40, 45, 47, 51

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Panton, Philip Nol, 81

Parkinsons disease, 116
Passarge, Eberhard, 161, 196
Pathology Society (UK), 76
pathology, 175
Paul, Diane, 53
Pauling, Linus, 206
Pauly, Philip, 4
Pavia, 21718, 224
Pearl Harbor, 211
Pearson, Karl, 1516, 18, 43, 49, 154, 1689
pedigree, 1415, 19, 28, 31, 345, 42, 156,
169, 175, 222, 223, 224
Pemberton, Stephen, 179
penicillin, 33, 132
Penrose, Lionel, 3940, 445, 4753, 73,
144, 145, 15363, 179, 180, 199
peripheral blood (human), 137, 139
peroneal atrophy, 154
phenogenetics, 11617
phenol, 1312, 135
phenylalanine, 1792, 185, 187, 1901
phenylketonuria, 12, 53, 17991
phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) taste sensitivity, 623
Philip, Ursula, 162
physician, 26, 1534, 162, 1656, 1689,
175
physiology, 169
Pius XII (Pope), 2256
PKU see phenylketonuria
plant breeding, 1301, 134, 142
plant genetics, 48
plant pathology, 73
plasma fractionation, 173
Polani, Paul, 144
polyploidy, 1289, 1334, 1378
population, 578, 63, 66
paradigm, 66
records, 17
population genetics, 11, 18, 55, 57, 602, 67,
87, 967, 103, 106, 110, 14951, 222
Population Genetics Research Unit
(Oxford), 150
Population Investigation Committee, 46, 47
Post, Richard H., 956
Porter, Theodore, 4
Porter, William Townsend, 415
Portugal, 130

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Oak Ridge National Laboratories (Tennessee, USA), 11821, 205, 212

occupational groups, 17, 19
Office for Indian Affairs of the United
States, 102
Ohio, 32
Oklahoma, 32
Oldenburg, 116
Olympics, 147, 151
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 206
orcein, 131, 135
Osborn, Frederick, 29, 32, 50
Ostertag, Bernhard, 115
Otto, John Conrad, 167
Oxford, 34
oxyquinoline, 132

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potato blight, 129

pregnancy, 812
prenatal diagnostics, 2034
Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 29
primitive groups, 66
Prinzing, Friedrich, 17
Prior, Eileen, 72
prophylaxis, 172, 200
psychiatry, 21, 153
Puck, Theodore T., 137, 145
Punnett, R. C., 42, 52
pure line, 61
pure race, 61
pyrogallol, 133
rabbit, 24, 11417, 119
race, 4, 1011, 567, 61, 645, 66, 857,
912, 959, 104, 185
Race, Robert, 72, 80, 83
racial hygiene, 4, 107, 193, 196, 198
radiation, 4, 9, 61, 139, 1425, 150, 151,
20515
radiation genetics, 9, 120, 209, 219
risk, 117, 205, 209, 21315
radiographs, 23, 26
radioisotopes, 117
Ramey, James T., 213
random mating, 42, 60, 77
rat, 114, 121, 132
Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fsicas y
Naturales (Spain), 137
Reardon, Jenny, 85
recombination, 80
Red (Soviet) Army, 117
Red Cross, 92
Reed, Sheldon C., 32, 194, 195
Regional Blood Transfusion Service (UK), 75
Reiche, Franz, 18
Renwick, Chris, 5
Renwick, James, 159
representativeness, 16, 19
reproductive barrier, 58
reproductive community, 58
reproductive isolation, 667
Revolution (Mexico), 1016, 110
Rhesus blood groups, 7981
Riffel, Alexander, 14, 19
Ro, Pablo Martnez del, 104, 105, 107, 110

risk determination, 15, 20, 118, 121, 123,

171, 196, 198
risk group, 12, 190, 195, 200
Ritter, Horst, 199200
Robert Koch Institute, 23
Rockefeller Foundation, 29, 60, 70, 83,
1589, 161, 218
Roelcke, Volker, 86
Romansh, 62
Rome, 34, 220, 225
Rosal, Corona del, 107
Rosenberg, Charles, 5
Rosewood State Training School, 36
Rosin, Siegfried, 87, 902, 949
Rothamsted Experimental Station (UK), 69,
73, 76, 82
Royal Agricultural and Veterinary College
(Copenhagen, Denmark), 133
Royal Eastern Counties Institution for Mental Defectives (Colchester, UK), 44
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College
(Copenhagen, Denmark), 130
Royal Commission on Population, 46
Royce, Kenneth, 149
Rdin, Edith, 159
Rdin, Ernst, 21
Russell, Liane, 118, 120
Russell, William, 118, 1203
rye (Secale), 129, 1334

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Salazar-Malln, Manuel, 103, 106, 107, 108

sampling, 18
sanatorium, 16
Snchez-Monge, Enrique, 12735
Sanger, R., 107
Sanghvi, L. D., 56, 60, 62, 635
Sapir, Edward, 104
Sardinia, 221
Scandinavia, 203
Schinz, Hans R., 90
schizophrenia, 212, 53
Schlaginhaufen, Otto, 86, 901, 95, 99
School of Agronomy (Bogor, Indonesia),
129
Schull, William J., 208
Schtz, Alfred, 91, 95
Scossiroli, Renzo, 218
Scotland, 76
Scottish Mental Survey, 40, 457, 49

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Scottish Council for Research in Education,
46
screening, 24, 14650, 152, 1805, 189
Scriver, Charles, 182
Sanz, Moiss, 102, 104
Segni, Antonio, 224
selection bias, 20, 21, 1545, 157, 161
selection (natural), 97, 201
Semendeferi, Ionna, 213
serology, 8, 567, 60, 71, 767
sex hormones, 1712
sex-linked inheritance, 1691, 173, 176
Shebeski, Leonard H., 135
sickle cell anaemia, 48, 53, 184
Siemens, Hermann W., 20
Silvestri, Luigi, 217
Silvestroni, Ezio, 218
Simpson, Barbara, 73, 75, 77
Singer, Karl, 108
Slavs, 93
slide (microscopy), 131, 136
Sloan-Kettering Institute (New York), 135
Smith, Cedric, 162
Snyder, Laurence, 51
social medicine, 5, 13
sociobiology, 187, 190
sociology, 667
Solanum, 129
Spain, 132, 134, 137
Spanish Civil War, 70, 134
Spearman, Charles, 43
spouse method, 17
St Thomass Hospital (London), 78
Staimer, Georg, 120
staining (microscopy), 131, 135
statistics, 67, 14, 18, 20, 21, 234, 25, 74,
77, 83, 95, 154, 158, 1612, 218
correlation, 16, 41, 43, 45, 48, 52, 54,
1557
stature (height), 405, 47, 49, 514
Stein, Zena, 47
sterilization, 24, 49, 50, 53, 198, 203, 226
Stern, Curt, 159, 161, 212
Stevenson, Alan, 150
Stiftung fr das behinderte Kind (German
Foundation), 197
Stiftung Rehabilitation (German Foundation), 197

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stigma, 20
Stockholm, 220, 221
Strandskov, Herluf H., 58
Strong, John A. 144
Stuttgart, 16
Sturtevant, Alfred, 212
surveillance, 16, 24
survey, 17, 23, 39, 40, 44, 457, 75
Susi, Ada, 180, 185
Susser, Mervyn, 47
Svalf (Sweden), 127, 130
Swadesh, Morris, 109
Sweden, 127, 1301
Swedish Association for Seed Improvement,
130
Swiss National Science Foundation, 92, 94
Switzerland, 612, 867, 909
syphilis, 33, 74
syringomyelia, 115
Tay-Sachs disease, 184
Taylor, George, 69, 71, 74, 76, 7880, 83
Teller, Edward, 206
testing, 9, 12, 22
Texas, 32
textbook, 82, 15960
therapeutics, 170, 178
Tierney, Patrick, 209
Tiger, Lionel, 207
Tipper, George, 72
tissue
culture, 136
human, 1367
Tjio, Joe Hin, 12735, 142, 144
Thomson, Godfrey, 46
toxicity, 139
toxicogenetics, 1203
transfusion medicine, 169, 177
transnational research, 59, 66, 127, 134
Triticale, 129, 1335
tuberculosis, 1326
care stations, 16, 20, 225
sanatorium, 16, 20, 223
susceptibility to, 22, 245
Turner syndrome, 144, 146, 147
Turpin, Raymond, 144
twin studies, 225
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unit character, 9
United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO),
57, 856, 222, 227
United Nations Scientific Committee
on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
(UNSCEAR), 121, 210
US Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), 121
University College London, 42, 43, 47, 60,
6970, 73, 77, 144
Galton Chair of Eugenics, 42, 1534,
159
Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics, 1545, 159, 162, 168
Galton Serological Laboratory, 72, 73, 83
University of Bonn (Germany), 167
University of California, Berkeley, 212
University of Cambridge (UK), 70
Department of Pathology, 72
Galton Serum Unit, 6970, 734, 768,
80, 82
University of Colorado Medical Center, 137
University of Copenhagen, 210
University of Illinois, 171
University of Madrid
Faculty of Science, 137
Medical School, 137
School of Agronomy, 137
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
Faculty of Agriculture, 135
University of Pennsylvania, 207
Department of Pathology, 139
University of North Carolina, 32, 1734
University of Rochester (New York), 161
Utah, 32

Wailoo, Keith, 179

Wales, 76
Waller, John, 5
Walser (Swiss ethnic minority), 62, 91, 97
Walton, John (Baron Walton of Detchant),
162
Washington, DC, 30, 35, 137
Washington University, 189
Waterston, Robert, 189
Watson, James D., 188, 207
Weinberg, Alvin, 118
Weinberg, Wilhelm, 1518, 21, 76
Weindling, Paul, 5
Weber, Max, 205
Wendt, Gerhardt, 1968, 201, 203
Werner syndrome, 35
West, Samuel Stewart, 215
Western General Hospital (UK), 144
wheat (Triticum), 129, 1314
Whitby, Lionel, 79
Wiener, Alexander, 7980, 107
Wilson, E. O., 207
Die Woche (Swiss newspaper), 92
Worcester (Massachusetts), 43
working class, 16
World Health Organization (WHO), 12,
66, 67, 120, 1501, 195, 21012, 215
World War I, 2, 93, 95, 1689
World War II, 4, 6, 13, 27, 32, 36, 66, 70, 83,
90, 102, 103, 105, 106, 108, 110, 111,
134, 141, 142, 153, 166, 177, 193
Wragge, Bernhard, 116
Wrttemberg, 17

Vatican, 219, 228

Vaughan, Janet, 703, 756, 789, 81
Vega, Jimena Fernndez de la, 137
Verschuer, Otmar von, 225, 197
Viking conquest, 76
Virginia, 35
Visconti di Modrone, Niccol, 217
visualization, 129, 136, 139, 1556
Vogel, Friedrich, 3, 120, 196, 199, 2012

Zapata, Emiliano, 103

Zaragoza, 127, 130
Zeitschrift fr induktive Abstammungs- und
Vererbungslehre, 116
Zeitschrift fr Rassenphysiologie, 75
Zepeda, J. Preciado, 107
Zulueta, Antonio de, 137
Zurich Society for Blood Group Research,
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X-rays, 1323
Young, Hugh, 33